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...offering $1.6 billion? If the two parties agree almost to the penny, why did everyone drop the ball and walk away from the negotiating table a week ago? The usual investigative byword-follow the money-is not all there is to this case, however. The issue, explains Sam Huff, a former New York Giants star and now a hotel executive, "is power and who will control pro football. Is it going to be Pete Rozelle, or is it going to be Ed Garvey...
...seems horrible, yet not really surprising when, in Cain's classic Postman, a shiftless drifter named Frank Chambers takes a job with the owner's wife, and with her plots to kill him. Nor is it surprising in Double Indemnity, when Walter Huff, an unsuccessful insurance agent, falls in love with one of his clients' wives, and plots with her to kill her husband...
...lizards, ranging from three inches to a foot long-and their job is eating cockroaches. Convinced that poisons and fatally sticky boxes do not provide enough firepower in the roach war, many Floridians are giving store-bought geckos (price: $10 to $20 apiece) the run of their homes. Bill Huff, who owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week. He ran an ad in the Florida State University newspaper: GOT ROACHES? GET GECKO. St. Petersburg's Fins and Friends pet store had 75 requests for the lizards in four days. Says Gecko Owner...
...brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned, to make way for Brokaw. After discussions with NBC News President Bill Small, Nightly News Washington Co-Anchor Roger Mudd, who went to NBC in a huff after losing the CBS anchor spot to Rather less than two years ago, waived a contractual option to be sole heir to Chancellor's position...
...guilty of playing in, or having other ties to, South Africa. Last month Nigeria detained three visiting British tennis pros because they had played the South African summer circuit. Guyana expelled a visiting British cricketer with South African connections, only to have the entire English team leave in a huff before the first match was played. Then, earlier this month, Trinidad canceled a planned visit by the Tampa Bay Rowdies because three of the soccer team's players come from South Africa...